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the army has a set, the navy has a set, the air force has a set. it is a totally miss organized system. host: how do they cost so much? guest: salaries are expensive. you're talking about people who are making over $100,000 a year serving as a military colonel. we tried to take a good look in the 1990's about how you could shrink and downsizing medical complex for the department of defense, but the resistance we got trying to downsize the military health-care system and combine the services capabilities, all my gosh. -- oh my gosh. host: whether so many lawyers? -- why are there so many lawyers? guest: when we dropped a bomb, if not only have to drop the target, you love to bring in a lawyer and say, is it too close to a school? here is how many people may get killed as collateral damage. about hundreds of targets needing lots of lawyers. you have them down in guantanamo. there are held of reasons for having lots and lots of lawyers. we have more lawyers than probably any one of the services. host: jacksonville, florida, independent. caller: my que
the army has a set, the navy has a set, the air force has a set. it is a totally miss organized system. host: how do they cost so much? guest: salaries are expensive. you're talking about people who are making over $100,000 a year serving as a military colonel. we tried to take a good look in the 1990's about how you could shrink and downsizing medical complex for the department of defense, but the resistance we got trying to downsize the military health-care system and combine the services...
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why is it the lcs the right ship for the navy? >> first, it's not a destroyer and we shouldn't characterize it as such. it's the right ship because it's fast. it has volume so volume and speed with the ability to adapt. it's -- i don't want to call it a truck. you can call it a fast truck if you want, but it has the ability to change its pay loads. i have seen in just my one year plus a few months what industry can do very quickly turning things around and the little anecdote my warfare and antisurface warfare, they've been able to turn around weapons systems. you can plug those in. so to me it's about payloads and this ship will bring us the ability to bring multiple payloads into the future as you look out 10, 15 years. >> you mention the ship costs overall is a problem. snbnx, that was supposed to be capped at $5 billion. the cost is now running at $6 billion. you guys want to buy 12 of them. that could force a reduction in the buy. what are some of the compromises the navy is going to have to make across its platt fortunatelie
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future these three all have to live in the same waters the chinese navy the indian navy and u.s. navy so that brings us to the u.s. pivoting announced by a bomb almost a year ago at the pentagon if they go with the militaristic kind of thing towards asia then we're going to have a conflagration against china soon within the next few weeks if they go for some kind of commercial alliances with countries in asia individually then it's a much better prospect for the u.s. and for the west in general ok alexander you know. again you i mean you no need to is nato a force for good ok because it's looking to the pacific now. well i mean nato is reaching out to countries like australia and japan to intensify their cooperation but i'll give you an example of that you just mentioned a country where i travel relatively often and that is libya if it had not been for nato colonel gadhafi would have murdered the inhabitants of let him go i don't know that we don't know that how do you know that would do you know what he's so you know that we don't know that that's what he's are going to i know h
future these three all have to live in the same waters the chinese navy the indian navy and u.s. navy so that brings us to the u.s. pivoting announced by a bomb almost a year ago at the pentagon if they go with the militaristic kind of thing towards asia then we're going to have a conflagration against china soon within the next few weeks if they go for some kind of commercial alliances with countries in asia individually then it's a much better prospect for the u.s. and for the west in general...
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the army and navy were involved with the no-fly zone over iraq. said the iraq war in afghanistan. soviet-backed at 1989. stage so we are back at 1989. so now we show that we are engaged. with the pacific, it implies you can turn your attention away from the know least. from the middle east. but you really cannot. that is the challenge with the pivot. >> talk about geographic divides, you make reference to the u.s. and mexico. what about transnational criminal organizations, to influence of radical extremist, iran into venezuela, and a large border that is flat? >> guest: i and my book talking about mexico. natalie china and the middle east but mexico is on the same level of importance. latin history is moving north demographically. and the average honduran is 20 also mexican, the american is 37. the young deer population is growing faster and we have more latin speaking people in our society. back of a 20th-century it was wrote with the artificial border come as our border is between highly developed society and an economically less developed, the
the army and navy were involved with the no-fly zone over iraq. said the iraq war in afghanistan. soviet-backed at 1989. stage so we are back at 1989. so now we show that we are engaged. with the pacific, it implies you can turn your attention away from the know least. from the middle east. but you really cannot. that is the challenge with the pivot. >> talk about geographic divides, you make reference to the u.s. and mexico. what about transnational criminal organizations, to influence...
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the size of the navy. we used to talk about the civil war in the 16,000 men army that extends to the numbers to plead for million let's say the union navy began and the confederacy began the purposes with non-so both are dramatically expanding the size and that means bringing more people and that has an impact on the character of manpower racially integrated in the military force and the reason for that is obvious. it's hard to segregate on the border of the ship. it's very grounded. it's hard to have an all black shirt and white ship as for example the black-and-white regiments in the army. so that was a tradition that had always been there, but the numbers changed dramatically. they'd gone up to 15% by about 1830 and then the pressure of the representatives in congress that said they should not allow them to serve drought that down close to single-digit and then they dramatically jumped back up again to probably a little over 20% so all these changes are taking place. >> i might add that the confederate
the size of the navy. we used to talk about the civil war in the 16,000 men army that extends to the numbers to plead for million let's say the union navy began and the confederacy began the purposes with non-so both are dramatically expanding the size and that means bringing more people and that has an impact on the character of manpower racially integrated in the military force and the reason for that is obvious. it's hard to segregate on the border of the ship. it's very grounded. it's hard...
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india has announced it's ready to deploy its navy in the south china sea to protect its oil interests the concerns were caused by accusations from vietnam that china is interfering with shipping and oil exploration in the area with beijing building up its military the sea is at the center of a five nation scramble for we influence and control india does not lay any territorial claims but it's needed national interests are tied to the scenes vast natural resources professor joseph chan of hong kong city university thinks the indian government cannot stay thoughtful and in the conflict huge of domestic political pressure. the recent course has been the issue of a new. army so far a keys indicating territories in disputes between time in the near chinese territory. may need the two pieces of land at the eastern and western hills up to yuma layers known as the our natural predators and asked my chin because of the mistake nationalism the indian government cannot afford to be seem to be reaped in dealing with time you know obviously a higher. government popular and provides more support fo
india has announced it's ready to deploy its navy in the south china sea to protect its oil interests the concerns were caused by accusations from vietnam that china is interfering with shipping and oil exploration in the area with beijing building up its military the sea is at the center of a five nation scramble for we influence and control india does not lay any territorial claims but it's needed national interests are tied to the scenes vast natural resources professor joseph chan of hong...
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the agency running the navy was getting bigger as the navy was getting smaller. he made the discovery -- the size of a bureaucracy has nothing to do with the amount of work the bureaucracy does. it will grow unless it is reined in. the bureaucracy was getting bigger. if you get that kind of bloat, get in trouble and you change or go out of business. ronald reagan said the closest thing to immortality is a government agency. caller: good morning, everybody. do you think capitalism and privatizing is withdrawing the money from the united states? they charge outrageous rates when the government could have maintained the prisoners cheaper. blackwater getting outrageous amounts of money to do things for the government. think that is draining our money. the money% withstood and that is why we are falling off the cliff. guest: it goes on the subject of crony capitalism. that is businesses that are dependent on government contracts. that is not free markets. if people can compete, that's fine. too often these cases are non- bid contracts and you get disasters like solynd
the agency running the navy was getting bigger as the navy was getting smaller. he made the discovery -- the size of a bureaucracy has nothing to do with the amount of work the bureaucracy does. it will grow unless it is reined in. the bureaucracy was getting bigger. if you get that kind of bloat, get in trouble and you change or go out of business. ronald reagan said the closest thing to immortality is a government agency. caller: good morning, everybody. do you think capitalism and...
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way we will maintain the best damn navy in the world. thank you very much. (applause)speaker .... >> now i'm going to introduce our next speaker, major general melvin spee splt e i've known melvin for a number of years, obviously we served together in the marine corps. i can tell you he's been with fleet week for 3 years now and the one thing about mel, he's got a lot of ideas and he accepts no as an interim answer because a lot of things that he wanted to do to make fleet week better originally the answer from authorities was no. and he made some amazing things happen just through his will. a commander can will things to happen. and i really want to thank you, mel, for that whole peer to peer medical exchange was your idea and it was just a huge hit and i thank you so much for that. he's offered to be the pifrplg hitter for admiral roughhead who was captured back in massachusetts and couldn't make it back out here and with his experience, one thing about melvin speese, he is the premiere taipber in the marine corps. please help me welco
way we will maintain the best damn navy in the world. thank you very much. (applause)speaker .... >> now i'm going to introduce our next speaker, major general melvin spee splt e i've known melvin for a number of years, obviously we served together in the marine corps. i can tell you he's been with fleet week for 3 years now and the one thing about mel, he's got a lot of ideas and he accepts no as an interim answer because a lot of things that he wanted to do to make fleet week better...
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to defend our national interests in the maritime domain, the navy has the mandate to do so by all means necessary. >> reporter: the admiral referred specifically to india's joint efforts with vietnam to explore marine resources as well as the freedom of navigation. india is wary of china's expanding presence at its doorstep. chinese companies are helping to construct old facilities in pakistan and sri lanka. the chinese government has also extended economic aid to bangladesh and myanmar. the combined efforts are known as china's strain strategy. india is concerned that china's growing military presence may spread beyond the straits of malacca into the indian ocean. this situation has prompted a rapprochement between india and the united states. the two nations share the view that any threat to the freedom of navigation runs counter to their national interests. india is also likely to develop cooperation with asean and japan as part of a strategy against china. abhishek duel ya, nhk, new delhi. >>> thailand's auto industry was one of the hardest hit by last year's devastating floods. aut
to defend our national interests in the maritime domain, the navy has the mandate to do so by all means necessary. >> reporter: the admiral referred specifically to india's joint efforts with vietnam to explore marine resources as well as the freedom of navigation. india is wary of china's expanding presence at its doorstep. chinese companies are helping to construct old facilities in pakistan and sri lanka. the chinese government has also extended economic aid to bangladesh and myanmar....
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a group of hard bits survivalists the so-called scrappers and range runners who trespass the navy's chocolate mountain bombing and gunnery range in pursuit of salvageable parts missile sections and heavy machine gun ammunition. what follows reflects years to gain entry to the shadowy subs all the well constantly daring four hundred seventy square miles no man's land. come in august and there's a jet there and you look up and there's one tapping on you he alpha beta gamma with all the fun now to metry and he's letting a guy with out there no one not pinpoint your. right now. just not a joke. ready for rome and his younger brother ronnie live and nyland a dusty shanty town that backs up to the bombing range they took to the chocolate mountains through team leader risking life and limb when scavenging the military range became their sole means of survival. fueled by plane rap beer and methamphetamine the border of brothers burn their way into the military range it being sunday randy desperately clings to the hope that the fighter bombers and helicopter gunships won't be airborne nonetheless ther
a group of hard bits survivalists the so-called scrappers and range runners who trespass the navy's chocolate mountain bombing and gunnery range in pursuit of salvageable parts missile sections and heavy machine gun ammunition. what follows reflects years to gain entry to the shadowy subs all the well constantly daring four hundred seventy square miles no man's land. come in august and there's a jet there and you look up and there's one tapping on you he alpha beta gamma with all the fun now to...
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i am also an officer in the navy reserve. if combat veterans at walter reed bethesda hospital -- we have combat veterans at walter reed bethesda hospital. i get calls from the veterans talk about how this is brought about serious memory flashbacks. they have seen children in afghanistan and iraq that had been killed. i want to speak out to veterans. if you have this kind of feelings, get some help. there are programs to help homeless veterans. we need to have our reach to them. it is a matter of being effective in the community. the best thing is to get somebody off of drugs. if they feel isolated, living in a basement and playing video games and drinking alcohol, that is not the answer. we have to be doing more outreach. if you know people like that, please encourage them to get help. it is a sad story we cannot let happen. host: we have a special line for mental health professionals, 202-585-3883. this is cynthia from florida. thank you for joining us. caller: you are welcome. thank you for taking my call. one reason that i
i am also an officer in the navy reserve. if combat veterans at walter reed bethesda hospital -- we have combat veterans at walter reed bethesda hospital. i get calls from the veterans talk about how this is brought about serious memory flashbacks. they have seen children in afghanistan and iraq that had been killed. i want to speak out to veterans. if you have this kind of feelings, get some help. there are programs to help homeless veterans. we need to have our reach to them. it is a matter...
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to put their 90,000 troops on and they would be slaughtered on the way to england by the royal navy and that would be the end of the war. and the whole hollywood industry of sea lion, the invasion of england and the search lights in the sky and we will fight on the beaches, he never believed they were coming, not for a minute. because were they to come they would lose the war. host: i would love to ask you questions but more we have kept you an hour and a half. paul reid, thank you. the book is "the last lion" with william fthor manchester. . thank you, sir. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> today "washington journal" with your calls, tweets and e-mails. followed by president obama's remarks to it year's kennedy center honorees. later, a look at polling and the 2012 election. >> the issue is not whether health will be stigmatized, we know the answer. for these false claims. the issue is how many different times the government can punish him as a result of that moral condemnation and the answer in the d
to put their 90,000 troops on and they would be slaughtered on the way to england by the royal navy and that would be the end of the war. and the whole hollywood industry of sea lion, the invasion of england and the search lights in the sky and we will fight on the beaches, he never believed they were coming, not for a minute. because were they to come they would lose the war. host: i would love to ask you questions but more we have kept you an hour and a half. paul reid, thank you. the book is...
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the army has a set and the navy has a set and their redundant. it is a totally miss organized system. >> how come the costs are much? guest: salaries are expensive. you are talking about people who make $100,000 a year serving as a military officer. we tried to take a good look at how you would shrink and downsize the medical complex of the department of defense but the resistance that we got trying to downsize the military health-care system and combine the services capability. you got such resistance, they used to make fun of us at dinner afterwards we felt some measurable. host: where there so many lawyers? >> when we drop a bomb, is it too close to a mosque or church or school? we come in this way. when you do that for a libyan campaign, you're talking about hundreds of targets needing lots of lawyers. you have them down in guantanamo. there are a whole lot of reasons for having lots and lots of lawyers. we have more lawyers than probably any one of the services. host: jacksonville, florida, independent. caller: my question would be why after
the army has a set and the navy has a set and their redundant. it is a totally miss organized system. >> how come the costs are much? guest: salaries are expensive. you are talking about people who make $100,000 a year serving as a military officer. we tried to take a good look at how you would shrink and downsize the medical complex of the department of defense but the resistance that we got trying to downsize the military health-care system and combine the services capability. you got...
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rise of china's resurgence internationally -- that has allowed elements like the navy within the chinese system to kind of push for greater -- much greater development at a much better, faster pace and a larger budget. and they're taking sort of a mahanian approach to their military or their naval developments, and that will be interesting to watch. >> so one of the things that means for us, bob, is that increasingly, chinese assets, naval and air, are operating further -- farther from chinese borders. the united states has -- and its allies -- has been very active. we forward-deployed in the asian-pacific region, and as a result, our forces are going to operate in closer proximity on a much more regular basis. so one of the things that's most important -- and you've seen what secretary panetta has done, and the chairman and other key military leaders -- is seek a deeper dialogue between our two military organizations, not just to get up this issue of transparency, which is of critical importance, but also to deal with issues associated with inadvertence and miscalculation. we do not wan
rise of china's resurgence internationally -- that has allowed elements like the navy within the chinese system to kind of push for greater -- much greater development at a much better, faster pace and a larger budget. and they're taking sort of a mahanian approach to their military or their naval developments, and that will be interesting to watch. >> so one of the things that means for us, bob, is that increasingly, chinese assets, naval and air, are operating further -- farther from...
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to retain at least three guided missiles cruisers that the navy proposed to retire before the end of their expected service life. the conference added an additional 3 tactical airlift aircraft that are essential of meeting the direct support airlift missions. these changes are essential to ensuring our military meets commission requirements. the bill also refuses to authorize another round of bracc, which i believe was first downed on a flabbed premise that assume the administration's proposal that it is correct. i refuse to accept the din minished department of defense and believe that force structure is needed to support our combatant commanders. i would be remiss if i did not express my concern with continued discussions on further reductions to the department of defense budget. while i believe the federal government, including the department of defense, needs to seek additional efficiencies, i reject the notion that additional cuts to federal government should be levied on the backs of our service men and women who provide so much. we hold a special trust for these men and women
to retain at least three guided missiles cruisers that the navy proposed to retire before the end of their expected service life. the conference added an additional 3 tactical airlift aircraft that are essential of meeting the direct support airlift missions. these changes are essential to ensuring our military meets commission requirements. the bill also refuses to authorize another round of bracc, which i believe was first downed on a flabbed premise that assume the administration's proposal...
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>> caller: i'm the director of science and technology development for the navy. >> host: for the navy, great, go ahead. but >> caller: if you think that you may remember i was the program manager and we came in under budget and that technological requirement is absolutely true. it's a model of management, its of the program managers. i find the sequestration probably a terrific opportunity because all we have to do is that programs we have, the major dollar cost programs [inaudible] like the v-22 which has the second recall that the piece of aircraft. .. i would like a little differently or can you change the nose and make it look better you don't get to do that. so you put in some reasonably simple controls on the process. you can reduce cost. i suspect he could do that for a lot of other programs. we have had these multi-year programs, f18, some of the helicopter programs, the destroyer, you can actually save money ship to ship and plastic glass or a series to serious. >> and the caller said he remembers you. were you doing at the time? >> guest: the 70's, i was actually working as
>> caller: i'm the director of science and technology development for the navy. >> host: for the navy, great, go ahead. but >> caller: if you think that you may remember i was the program manager and we came in under budget and that technological requirement is absolutely true. it's a model of management, its of the program managers. i find the sequestration probably a terrific opportunity because all we have to do is that programs we have, the major dollar cost programs...
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put their 96,000 troops on and would be slaughtered on the way to england by the royal navy and that would be the end of the war. the whole hollywood industry of lying -- the invasion of england, we will fight on the beaches -- he never believed they were coming for a minute. if it were to come, he would lose the war. >> i would love to ask you about 1400 more questions, but we have to let you go. we kept you an hour and a half. paul reid, thank you. the book is "the last lion." with his co-author, william manchester. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> for a dvd copy of this program, call the number on your screen. for free transcripts, or to give your comments about the program, visit us at q-and-a.org. "q&a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012]>> coming up here on c-span, british prime minister david cameron, followed by a look at improving government services with the e-government act. then a look at multi-employer pension plans. >> there are about a
put their 96,000 troops on and would be slaughtered on the way to england by the royal navy and that would be the end of the war. the whole hollywood industry of lying -- the invasion of england, we will fight on the beaches -- he never believed they were coming for a minute. if it were to come, he would lose the war. >> i would love to ask you about 1400 more questions, but we have to let you go. we kept you an hour and a half. paul reid, thank you. the book is "the last lion."...
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and the navy football team knows a thing or two about that. they lost by 40 points and closed out the year winning seven of 8, winning the
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disputed resource rich south china sea it comes in reaction to this week's statement by india's navy chief who announced his country could go as far as sending warships to the area to protect its economic interests he is going off investigated the claims. as china and india rise economically their military muscles are growing as well both need energy to keep that kind of growth going and that may be putting the two asian giants on a collision course because of the mess that nationalism the indian government cannot afford to be seem to be weak in dealing with china obviously a higher power with government. over two hundred billion barrels of oil and large amounts of natural gas that's more than the vast majority of the world's energy rich nations have all hidden under the south china sea china claims most of the territory for itself but india has also managed to get access by buying a stake in a vietnamese gas field shortly after hanoi accuse chinese boats of sandwich dodging exploration india warned it's ready to use force to defend its interests hopefully as i said the trip not to l
disputed resource rich south china sea it comes in reaction to this week's statement by india's navy chief who announced his country could go as far as sending warships to the area to protect its economic interests he is going off investigated the claims. as china and india rise economically their military muscles are growing as well both need energy to keep that kind of growth going and that may be putting the two asian giants on a collision course because of the mess that nationalism the...
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the ratio is totally out of work. we almost have an admiral for every ship in the navy. it is not a captain. it is an animal. all we have done is go through and look at areas where we could not necessarily save all the money, but we could transfer responsibilities that are not truly in the defense of the country out of the pentagon, and consolidate programs and save a significant amount of money. >> this weekend, talk with senator tom coburn about the fiscal cliff, the affordable care act, and the future of the republican party. the president has written several books and reports, including his latest, "the debt bomb." live sunday at the 12:00 noon eastern. >> no, we hear from a syrian opposition spokesman about the latest developments in the ongoing syrian civil war. the spokesman urged the international community to intervene, and calls for u.s. leadership, rather than just humanitarian aid. from johns hopkins, this is an hour and a half. >> thank you. thank you for everyone. thank you for the john hopkins university for organizing this event. let me start by sharing w
the ratio is totally out of work. we almost have an admiral for every ship in the navy. it is not a captain. it is an animal. all we have done is go through and look at areas where we could not necessarily save all the money, but we could transfer responsibilities that are not truly in the defense of the country out of the pentagon, and consolidate programs and save a significant amount of money. >> this weekend, talk with senator tom coburn about the fiscal cliff, the affordable care...
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the report says cooperation, china's navy and maritime law enforcement agencies is likely to strengthen not only in the south china sea, but also in the east china sea. the vessels and patrol boats have been around the senkaku islands since september. >>> japan's coast guard officials are asking for budget increases to pay for personnel and equipment. they want to boost their presence in japanese waters. coast guard commandant takashi kitamura spoke about chinese government ships navigating around the senkaku islands and says the intrusions are likely to continue. >> translator: we haven't often requested additional patrol vessels for our fleet, but it's becoming necessary to add more ships and more personnel to staff them. >> he said the scope of the coast guard's mission has widened. he said the territorial rows are making more patrols a necessity. >>> the territorial issue is just one of many of japan's incoming administration is facing. liberal democrats also need to lay out energy policy. they want to keep nuclear reactors running, despite opposition following the fukushima acciden
the report says cooperation, china's navy and maritime law enforcement agencies is likely to strengthen not only in the south china sea, but also in the east china sea. the vessels and patrol boats have been around the senkaku islands since september. >>> japan's coast guard officials are asking for budget increases to pay for personnel and equipment. they want to boost their presence in japanese waters. coast guard commandant takashi kitamura spoke about chinese government ships...
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do to the navy. it will take the navy and drive it down to the smallest force it has had since prior to world war one. not world war ii, lou. world war one. lou: you know, i'm sorry, admiral. when governor romney said that, pointed that out to president ama in the debate, he was -- we had horses and bayonets, too. he seemed to make light of tht. how important is it? can you give us a sense of the impact? >> i think the president's comment is showing his inexperience i military matters. in this particular case we are going down to 220 ships. to put that number in rspective, i had 2505 ships under my command in the pacific fleet's. 20 percent of those 220 ships will be the literal combat ships which basically have no offensive or defensive capability. we are going to be challenged where we show weakness. and let me give you an example. just today china announced effective january 1 they have authorized their paramilitary naval forces and their police to stop all vessels in the south china sea that they
do to the navy. it will take the navy and drive it down to the smallest force it has had since prior to world war one. not world war ii, lou. world war one. lou: you know, i'm sorry, admiral. when governor romney said that, pointed that out to president ama in the debate, he was -- we had horses and bayonets, too. he seemed to make light of tht. how important is it? can you give us a sense of the impact? >> i think the president's comment is showing his inexperience i military matters. in...
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>> this week, this launch thanks to the navy memorial and a navy institute press and all of our co-sponsors is watching a weak campaign that will transition to a fall campaign, which will transition into a decade of honor and remembrance of this decade. this is the only book you can find that captures the humble stories and the diverse experiences. it's not one person's dream. is not one person's career. is the most powerful vignette, the most crucible critical moment of the past 10 years on the frontlines. are planned is to move forward on this aggressive book tour to go to universities and high schools in bookstores throughouthroughou t the country, the west coast, kansas city and texas and all around and share this message. all of you here are now part of the team. all of you here are now on behalf of us, we are asking we are asking you to be advocates for this book. tonight, this week, through our web web site. that is her plan. this book is nonprofit and its ambitious. [applause] >> specifically what josh means is please go home, like our facebook page and send it on to all of your fri
>> this week, this launch thanks to the navy memorial and a navy institute press and all of our co-sponsors is watching a weak campaign that will transition to a fall campaign, which will transition into a decade of honor and remembrance of this decade. this is the only book you can find that captures the humble stories and the diverse experiences. it's not one person's dream. is not one person's career. is the most powerful vignette, the most crucible critical moment of the past 10 years...
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the navy swore to cancel the live nativity. we will tell you about that. " ♪it's so important to make someone happy.♪ ♪it's so important to make someone happy.♪ ♪make just one heart to heart you - you sing to♪ ♪one smile that cheers you ♪one face that lights when it nears you.♪ ♪and you will be happy too. [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where you don't back down from a challenge. this is the age of knowing how to make things happen. sowhy let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. 20 million men already have. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain; it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects include headache, flushing, upset stomach, and abnormal vision. to avoid long-term injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing. this is th
the navy swore to cancel the live nativity. we will tell you about that. " ♪it's so important to make someone happy.♪ ♪it's so important to make someone happy.♪ ♪make just one heart to heart you - you sing to♪ ♪one smile that cheers you ♪one face that lights when it nears you.♪ ♪and you will be happy too. [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where you don't back down from a challenge. this is the age of knowing how to make things happen. sowhy let erectile...
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. >> some international news at this hour, the russian defense ministry says the navy squadron has set off for the lead attorney in provision coming amid official talk about a possible evacuation of russians from syria. if russia has been the staunchest ally of the bashar assad regime. meanwhile, parliament is getting ready to adopt a measure that would ban adoption of russian children by americans. last week, president obama signed into law a bill imposing sanctions on russians who are found to be connected with human-rights abuses. and back here in the states on wall street, stock futures are edging higher on emerging signs that the white house and congress may be moving closer to a budget deal. a new proposal for president obama drops his plan to raise taxes on individuals morning -- earning more than $200,000, and families making more than $250,000. he is now offering a new threshold of $400,000. the head of the -- ahead of the opening bell, futures are up about 25 points. those are headlines on c-span radio. >> one of the things that did surprise me a little, i did conduct a natio
. >> some international news at this hour, the russian defense ministry says the navy squadron has set off for the lead attorney in provision coming amid official talk about a possible evacuation of russians from syria. if russia has been the staunchest ally of the bashar assad regime. meanwhile, parliament is getting ready to adopt a measure that would ban adoption of russian children by americans. last week, president obama signed into law a bill imposing sanctions on russians who are...
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the authority to seize this argentinean frigate this owned by the argentinian navy he must have it while she must've been looking at that and saying wow we've got this as precedence in our battle against calipers but now that the u.n. court citing the fact that this could cause. disputes between nation these because become hot wars and we allow this stand this precedence to would be established by paul singer so this could be a case with california but remember also in california stockton is one of the biggest ever bankruptcy's by city they first went bankrupt and we were there really broke and speaking of civil wars they've got all sorts of violence there but in a closely related action bond insurers who are responsible for the death of stockton california filed papers in that city's bankruptcy case denouncing cowper's efforts to be treated differently from other creditors because stockton has continued to make payments to calipers while halting payments to some bondholders remember or after the cold war russia had a fire sale in those. jets and i mean this to personify jets why doesn't
the authority to seize this argentinean frigate this owned by the argentinian navy he must have it while she must've been looking at that and saying wow we've got this as precedence in our battle against calipers but now that the u.n. court citing the fact that this could cause. disputes between nation these because become hot wars and we allow this stand this precedence to would be established by paul singer so this could be a case with california but remember also in california stockton is...
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>> admiral, chairman of the joint chiefs, navy admiral said in world war ii, what was the line? we learned to burn them scientifically, you know, was in favor of modern warfare, and he wanted to use tactical nuclear weapons as did john foster dulles as well as richard nixon when the french were losing at the end. they felt this was the time to use tactical weapons to try to rescue the situation. ike listened to that. rejected that advice. never really tipped his hand at what he was thinking. this is one of the moments when he had to decide because the french's position was procare yows and losing, and he made the decision, one, not to get involved sending ground troops in saying the jungle will come soup the army by division so he did not want to put in ground troops, and he thought about, but rejected the idea of using tactical nuclear weapons. okay? back there. >> any effort after stalin died early in the presidency to attempt to reset the relationship? you mentioned the two year interval. >> this is an important moment. sal lin, of course, used to talk about the inevidentabil
>> admiral, chairman of the joint chiefs, navy admiral said in world war ii, what was the line? we learned to burn them scientifically, you know, was in favor of modern warfare, and he wanted to use tactical nuclear weapons as did john foster dulles as well as richard nixon when the french were losing at the end. they felt this was the time to use tactical weapons to try to rescue the situation. ike listened to that. rejected that advice. never really tipped his hand at what he was...
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i did it for john warner when he was secretary of the navy. and i emphasized strongly with the people who handle our casework what an important job it was that they were doing. and in the time that we have been in the senate, our staff has resolved more than 40,000 personal cases. more than 40,000 people who have not known in many cases even how to approach their government, have received personal assistance that's helped them solve other problems in their lives. and, in fact, andrea troter, joann pulliam, debra lawson, debry boroughs on our staff, each one of them resolved more than 3,000 cases during the time that i have been in the senate. on legislative and political issues, i would say that when i came to the united states senate, i had made promises on the campaign trail, and we kept those promises. and the greatest achievements, in my view, during this term were made right out of our office not because we were responding to the suggestions of some committee work or from the executive branch, say they wanted something, but because we con
i did it for john warner when he was secretary of the navy. and i emphasized strongly with the people who handle our casework what an important job it was that they were doing. and in the time that we have been in the senate, our staff has resolved more than 40,000 personal cases. more than 40,000 people who have not known in many cases even how to approach their government, have received personal assistance that's helped them solve other problems in their lives. and, in fact, andrea troter,...
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india says it's ready to deploy its navy to the south china sea to protect its oil interests this comes amid accusations china's expirations in the disputed area professor joseph chan of hong kong city university told us that both india and china are looking to maintain a high profile both domestically and internationally by getting involved in the dispute. the recent course has been be issue of a new passport by the time these authorities indicating territories in disputed region time in the near. territories may need the two pieces of command eastern and western foothills of the himalayas known as the our natural pradesh and chin because of the mystic nationalism the indian government cannot afford to be seemed to be read in dealing with time you know obviously a higher. government popular and provides more our support for military spending especially spending on more than one east asian while that may be india has its own security has on its own energy security problem and it is eager to explore car to get in itself a time to see chinese authorities on one hand also has to satisfy. n
india says it's ready to deploy its navy to the south china sea to protect its oil interests this comes amid accusations china's expirations in the disputed area professor joseph chan of hong kong city university told us that both india and china are looking to maintain a high profile both domestically and internationally by getting involved in the dispute. the recent course has been be issue of a new passport by the time these authorities indicating territories in disputed region time in the...
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it features three photos of the islands. one shows the navy staging a drill in nearby waters. the report says the military has a strong willingness to defend the islands and has prepared a deterrent strategy. as in past reports, this latest white paper also uses the phrase enmany toy define north korea. it notes the reclusive nation has honed missile technology through several tests and cites analysis of imaged and scientists in the north are enriching uranium. at a new facility. >>> the defense and foreign policy files are just two in a stack that will be on park's desk when she takes over as president. many south koreans want her to rein in the country's conglomerates. these big business blocks have helped fuel the economy but they've also been suffocating small and medium sized companies. our reporter has the story. rpt this man loves serving up bread and other goods to customers who visit his small bakery. he says his products are tasty and affordable. but the business he bought a year ago is facing an uncertain future. >> translator: we are all in a life or death situatio
it features three photos of the islands. one shows the navy staging a drill in nearby waters. the report says the military has a strong willingness to defend the islands and has prepared a deterrent strategy. as in past reports, this latest white paper also uses the phrase enmany toy define north korea. it notes the reclusive nation has honed missile technology through several tests and cites analysis of imaged and scientists in the north are enriching uranium. at a new facility. >>>...